Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-01
NEWS.
Suicide Of Hon. Thomas c. Reynolds,
Of st Louis, No.
the cRocKER AND ALEXANDER FAMILIES
COMING 70 CALIFORNIA.
An Explosion In the vans.:rch Nine Ct the
Delaware b Hudson Canal Company.
AN EXPRESS MESSENGER SHOT ANr
ON TIE WEST SHORE Road.
Allott;ng Lands to the Indians On the
Warm Springs Reservation.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENrrsEL.l

ST. LOUIS, March 3l.-E1On. lnOnaS
G. Reynolds committed suicide at the
| Custom-house this afternoon by plum
| ging down the elevator shaft. He fell
a distance of so feet and crushed in
| his skull. The cause of the rash act
| was mental arrangement, superin-
| duced by a hallucination that he was
| about to become insane. A few min
| utes before 2 O'Clock he entered the
building and sauntered into the United
| States Courtroom. Several persons
met him in the building and he APP
peared in his usual humor. He was
seen to leave the United States Mar
shal's office. and stepping into the
elevator gate passed o Il OF view. A
few minutes later he was brought from
the sub-basement dead. In 1860 he
was elected Lieutenant Governor OF
the State of Missouri, on the same
ticket with the famous Governor Caleb
| jacobson, and in the civil wal served
with the Confederacy. AT its close he
went to Mexico, and became very in
| innate with Macmillan. In 1868 he
returned to st. Louis. He vas a
member of the commission sent to
South America about two years ago,
in the interest of commerce with the
United States. In 1854 he fought a
duel with B. Gratz Brown, with rifles
at 80 PAGES, on the island opposite this
city, i've a political discussion. Mr..
Brown was hit in the knee, but Mr..
Reynolds was not touched. 1t is be-
lieved that Mr.. Reynolds only intended
to MAIN MIR. Brown. Mr.. Reynolds
was married twice, and leaves his sec
ond wife, whom he married three years
ago, all his property.
Gas FL pI0siOn i'm p Mine.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 31.-An ex-
plosion occurred at the Vanstorch
mine of the Delaware & Hudson Canal
Company this morning. A heading
was being driven from the Vanstorch
mine to connect with the Dickson air
shaft, in order to secure better ventila-
ton. Fire boss Lewis, and Thomas
Lewis and Edward Owens, miners,
entered the mine and detected gas.
Fire boss Lewis leaving the miners,
retraced his steps, going toward the
entrance. On the way he met the
mine foreman, and was explaining the
situation when an explosion occurred.
The force of the explosion was terrific.
Every door, of fifty, was torn from
their fastenings and sent crushing
against the walls of the mine. Miners
were carried off their feet, and hurled
into bitches and blown against the pill
!, lars. Fire boss Littlejohn, and a
miner named James Morgan, were
hurled into what is known as the
stump, the spot in which water from
the level accumulates. Three doors
were also thrown into the stump.
Littlejohn's hat was carried to the top
of the shaft, at least 200 feet. An eff
fort was at once made to rescue Lewis
and Owens, the miners who went into
the Vanstorch mine.
An Ex res Messenger Shot and
Robbed.
UTICA, N. Y, March 31.-"Tele-
graph HUT, at Albany. that / have
been shot and robbed" These were
the words uttered by express messen-
ger Lake, running on train Sc, on the
West Shore road, which arrived in
Utica at IL :16 tonight. When he
was found he was lying in his car,
bleeding freely from q wound in his
shoulder. While the train was max
ing the run between Clark's mills and
this city, which only occupies seven
minutes, a party of men boarded it
between the baggage and express car,
shot the messenger and attempted
robbery. But with what result, or
how severely the man is injured, it
could not be learned, as only a stop of
three minutes was made here. and all
was confusion. When the train
reached Frankfort, nine miles east of
here, Lake was attended by a physi-
clan. The would-be robbers escaped,
but it is believed they secured no
plumber.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-The Presi-
dent to-day. directed the allotment of
lands in severalty to the Indians on
the Warm Springs reservation in
Oregon. This is the first action taken
under the Indian Land Severalty Act,
which was passed by the last Congress.
Under its provisions the Surveyor Gen
eral OF Oregon will have to survey a
sufficient quantity OF land to give each
head of a family 100 acres; to each
single person, over Is years of age, 80
acres; to each orphan, under Is years
of age, 80 acres, and to each other
single person, under IS years 81 age,
40 acres. This distribution is made to
male and female alike. Each Indian
will receive a patent to his land, which
shall be Of legal effect, and declare that
the United States will hold the lands
thus allowed, for the period Of rs years,
in trust for the sole use and benefit of
the Indian and his heirs. At the ex-
piration of this period the United
| States will convey the land in fee.